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Eversion

by Alastair Reynolds
Harry Myers
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From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and space, where Doctor Silas Coade is tasked with keeping his crew safe as they adventure across the galaxy in search of a mysterious artifact.

In the 1800s, a sailing ship crashes off the coast of Norway. In the 1900s, a Zepellin explores an icy canyon in Antarctica. In the far future, a spaceship sets out for an alien artifact. Each excursion goes horribly wrong. And on every journey, Dr. Silas Coade is the physician, but only Silas seems to realize that these events keep repeating themselves. And it's up to him to figure out why and how. And how to stop it all from happening again.

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    August 2, 2022

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781668604250
      • File size: 289808 KB
      • Duration: 10:03:45

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from July 11, 2022
      Much of the fun in this vigorous space opera from Reynolds (Terminal World) comes from figuring out the tricks of the twisty plot. Narrator Silas Coade, an anxious young assistant surgeon, starts the novel on a little sloop sailing up the coast of Norway in the 1800s, searching for a fissure in the cliffs said to contain a mysterious “Edifice.” Along the way, Coade dies. But then the same narrator is on a steamship a century later looking for a fissure off the coast of South America. After another death, he’s on a dirigible entering the Hollow Earth through a crater in Antarctica. As Coade struggles with overlapping memories of past expeditions, he slowly realizes that the stories he’s telling obscure the real crisis: an alien space probe has crashed into a subterranean ocean and has captured the human members of a team trying to explore that ocean. The team will all die unless Coade can face a startling truth about himself. Reynolds packs plenty of emotion into this mind-bending plot as Coade struggles to do the right/human thing. The result is an excellent adventure that’s sure to keep readers on their toes. Agent: Robert Kirby, United Agents.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Harry Myers gives a splendid narration of this work of science fiction/fantasy. The plot concerns Dr. Silas Coade, who is the physician on a sailing ship in the nineteenth century, on a zeppelin in the twentieth century, and on a spaceship in the far future. Each of these voyages of discovery ends with some sort of disaster, and Coade knows about this and tries to figure out how to stop it from happening. Myers is an experienced narrator and is quite versatile. He gives each of the many characters a specific and credible voice and is just as splendid with the narrative. Furthermore, he is easy to understand and not melodramatic. M.T.F. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
    • Booklist

      Starred review from August 1, 2022
      The author of Inhibitor Phase (2019) and Permafrost (2017), among many other fine SF novels, just might have outdone himself here. His new novel begins on a sailing ship in the nineteenth century. The vessel crashes, and the ship's doctor, Silas Coade, is killed. In the twentieth century, an airship is exploring in the Antarctic; disaster strikes, killing the ship's doctor, Silas Coade. Centuries from now, a spaceship exploring an alien structure encounters trouble; the ship's doctor, Silas Coade, perishes. Different times and places, linked, apparently, by one man. And if you think that's a difficult concept to wrap your head around, wait until you see what else Reynolds has in store in this utterly brilliant exploration of life, death, and consciousness. There are so many moments when we think: "I can't believe he just did that"--so many moments that make us pause to digest some new piece of information that changes everything that came before it. Is this Reynolds' best book? Perhaps, but that's difficult to say, because he's such a talented writer. It's his most ambitious, certainly, and at the very least, one of his best. Required reading for SF fans.

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